Dr. Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martinez, lettered by Sarula Bao. Simon & Schuster. 2021 “I am a historian, and I am haunted.” These are the first words uttered by Dr. Rebecca Hall as drawn by illustrator Hugo Martinez in their new graphic novel Wake,...
Jeremiah Camp does not speak. At all. For the entire book. The protagonist of Thomas King’s novel, Sufferance, has no TV, phone, internet, or mailbox. He likes it that way. Jeremiah lives on the fictional Cradle Rock Reserve, located somewhere in Ontario, as the owner...
Likeness, fathers, sons, a portrait, by David MacFarlane delivers exactly what the title promises but in an unexpected way. Likeness is not a straight-ahead memoir. Much depends on the portrait, its effect on the author, the heartbreaking loss of his son, and the...
Rankin House looking up the path Credit: Rdikeman at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The directors of the MFA program for Creative Non-Fiction at King’s College, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia scheduled a night of...
In March 2019, I traveled with friends making a large circle through the various regions of Morocco: from Casablanca, Marrakech, Ait Ben Haddou, Ouarzazet, tenting in the desert, Fes and return to Casablanca. The housing and the food were as varied as the terrain. The...
